Wish List for Current Urgent Projects

Agricultural Project. This is currently underway and urgent funds are required to continue clearing and ploughing for the next growing season and to increase the farm area. This will help the children to grow enough vegetables to help support their food supply. These funds will supply additional clearing, provide seeds and seedlings and tools to prepare the the ground for the next growing season starting in September 2015. We require a further $1000 to complete the project.

Mosquito Nets. The weather is currently very hot and the rains are set in. Mosquitos are in abundance. We need to get mosquito nets to stop the children from getting malaria particularly as they sleep in dormitories and can be easily infected. You can only get malaria from a mosquito that has already bitten someone with malaria. Quality Mosquito Nets and fittings costs around $10 in the markets. There are 600 plus children so require total funding of some $6000 for this project for a total refit over the next 2 years. However, presently there is an urgent need to replace the most damaged nets. We assume that half are still functional so any amount will be gratefully accepted and we will buy the mosquito nets to replace the most damaged ones as we go along.

Storage Lockers . The children at Suan Luang have no where to put anything. All stuff, school books, toiletries, food items and what little money they have, etc. stay on the beds or on the rough dirty concrete floor. For the simple cost of $10 per locker, we can provide a lockable cupboard for each child. These can be built during school vacation so as not to disturb the study and be ready for when the children come back to school. This provides part of the hygiene program to help the children be organized, stay tidy and clean which is impossible presently with all the stuff on the absolutely dirty floor. We can start with the seniors and work through to give each child a locker. Total cost around $6000 for 600 children. Any donation towards this can get the process started and get some lockyers built.

All weather - Outdoor Recreation Hut. The children at Suan Luang have nowhere to sit outside and enjoy the shade and or sun and have no where to sit and study or just socialize or talk. We have already built a trial hut and this is very successful. We would like to build more - one for each dormitory and an outdoor pavilion for assemblies. We would also like to plant tropical gardens around the huts to provide some ambiance. It would be ideal for the young men of Suan Luang to help build this with education from the Wood Working Workshop.

Wood Working Training. We need around $50 per month to provide for a Lao Wood Working Teacher - part time on weekends and we would probably need around $2000 for materials. This would go towards building the Outdoor Recreation Area and repairs to the dormitory ceilings and beds.

Working Bee. We are looking to do a working bee at Suan Luang for the following general repairs at the facility. It will be fun for the workers to combine some really needed work and to enjoy some downtime and holiday in Luang Prabang. The following jobs need to be done. Of course what we can do will depend on numbers and funding but expect a total of $10,000 will be all we will need to really make a big difference to the facilities.

Guerney everywhere we can. Getting as much dirt off as we can, wherever we can.

Paint the dining room walls

Repair Dormitory Ceilings

Repair broken slats on bed

Sort out a clothes distribution system for the quarter master store and distribute clothes to new intake

New mattresses and blankets for new student intake

Dormitory Shelving and hanging room

Outfitting new intake students

Helping to expand the agricultural project

Checking new water supply, efficiency and any new reticulation required

Taking medical records of the new students

Repair and maintenance electrical and plumbing

Getting rust off tiles and toilets

Medical check ups and treatments if required

Finish covering dining tables with vinyl for easy cleaning

Checking potential collapse of kitchen corner

Hygiene Training

Building a simple incinerator for Female Sanitary products

Pick up and take to hospital some victims who need prosthetics and return them to villages

And whatever, comes up as urgent at the time

Winter Clothing/Mattresses and Blankets.﻿ We provided around 170 mattresses last winter and about 50 blankets. We will need to provide more for the new intake, and for the worn out mattresses (only last around 3 years at most). We will also need some winter clothing but to what extent we are unsure but expect that the immediate need would be around $2000 with further needs down the track.